The woman who gave her eye for Freedom, 1941
The woman who gave her eye for Freedom, 1941 Albina Mali-Hočevar was a resistance fighter in Yugoslavia in World War II. Not much is known about her, and many of the sources I read about her don't seem to be creditable or they were poorly written, but here is what I could gather about her. Hočevar's father died when she was young. She dropped out of school in the 3rd grade to help support her family and siblings. In 1941, Germany invaded Yugoslavia, and Hočevar (who was 16 at the time) joined the People's Liberation Movement. She was assigned as a nurse and reportedly cried in frustration as she wanted to fight on the front lines with her comrades. It appears that as the war intensified, Hočevar fought on the front lines and worked as a nurse during different intervals of the war. She found herself getting closer and closer to the action and fought in many different battles and skirmishes. She was badly wounded twice when she was 17 and badly wounded once when she was 1...